Selecting a picture control

By default, your 5100 is configured to use this standard picture control.…This is where you are going to leave it most of the time.…It gives you very balanced results for most situations, but if I want to change…it, I can hit the Information Edit button, the big i on the back of the back of…the camera, and navigate over to Set Picture Control and hit OK.…And now I get a little scrolling menu with a nice thumbnail preview of what each…picture control is going to do. So I can go from Standard to Neutral, which is…going to apply very minimal processing. The idea is that you are going to get a…more natural-looking picture, possibly more color accuracy.…

Next, I have Vivid, which is going to amp up saturation, possibly even amp up some contrast.…It's going to make really bright primary colors and give you kind of a glossy photo look.…I have Monochrome, which is going to give me a somewhat traditional-looking…black-and-white picture.…I have Portrait, which is going to try to improve skin tones and texture…